"Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles and causes you to bump into people not going your way." -Edna Ferber

According to The Big Read, the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books on their list.

The instructions:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR ( Read more... )

hi, my name is meg and i'm a solitairoholic. i blame tom.

i lost simbaa yesterday. i miss him even more than i thought i would. several times a day i'm hit with a tidal wave of grief and loss: simbaa is gone forever. even now, as i type this in the computer lab of hillman library, tears are welling up in my eyes ( Read more... )

truly incredible....

http://www.lifestartsat.com/health/old_women.php

if you like my poems let them
walk in the evening,a little behind you

then people will say
"Along this road i saw a princess pass
on her way to meet her lover(it was
toward nightfall)with tall and ignorant servants."

dear pittsburgh,

i hate you.

sincerely,
meg

i really need to get out of here. what a week.

i just saw a commercial with two kids playing in some serious mud, and my mirror neurons went CRAZY jealous.

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're listening to ( Read more... )

i'm a kid on christmas morning with no batteries. wah ( Read more... )